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Absolutely right. The only thing I'm interested in is high capacity, high quality MP3 audio playback. I don't even care if it has a colour screen, as long as I can navigate the contents, and pick tracks or albums, to play. I wouldn't reject a player because it had a colour screen, or video...

But .... cynicism is just wisdom born of experience. Or is that just cynical? :D For the record, though, I have no first-hand experience of divorce.

The answer to that is blindingly obvious ...... when anyone gets divorced, unless they're sensible enough and amicable enough to avoid court, the lawyers come out better off.

Which is not legally binding or enforceable ..... in the UK.

Maybe you misunderstood what I meant. Someone takes a monday off. Two or three weeks later, a different person takes a monday off. Two or three weeks later, a third person does it, and two or three weeks after that, the last of the four does. Two or three weeks later, it's the first again. I...

Easy. Is it an even-numbered week or an odd-numbered one? Odd numbered? Oh, it must be 8 this week, then. :D

Some people are just untrustworthy, and out for anything they can get, fair or not and legal or not. It says more about them, than it does about me. I'm NOT suggesting, cbs, that every time an employee has a day off you wonder if they're swinging the lead, but .... suppose you noticed that a...

It may be splitting hairs, but I don't agree with quite a bit of that. Firstly, it is, in my view, very much a manager's duty to consider legitimacy of an employee's sickness claims .... though I most certainly would agree, you have to be extremely careful how you go about it. If sickness...

I'm after replacing a rather ancient, and bulky, 20GB player, and would appreciate model suggestions. Criteria are :- - at least 20GB, rock-bottom minimum. More (say 60GB) is preferred. - only interested in audio. No interest at all in video, photos, games, internet, etc - sound...

Yes, it is. Which is why I stressed following the company's disciplinary procedure. Providing you have good grounds, evidence to support it AND followed procedure, a tribunal should be okay.

It's a difficult judgement to reach. Much of my reaction would depend on my assessment of what is going on. But one thing is clear - Inward's employee needs to be brought up short, and soon. It seems to me, the relevant facts (as posted) are :- 1) The bloke is acting like an ass 2) He's a...

If I'm looking for a trophy to drape my arm round for a night out, maybe I'd go for stunning looks. If I'm looking for someone to have a relationship with, there'd be a whole series of factors (sense of humour, sense of fun, good intellect, good education, reasonably assertive, and so on) that...

Whether you have to tell an employer depends on the job you're applying for. Some jobs, such as with children, you are required to disclose convictions, whether spent or not. Of course the US acknowledges it. What they don't do is accept they should be bound by it. And why should they? Do you...

I might be reading it wrong, but I suspect it was my post that "unsettled" Paramount. If so, good .... providing it unsettled you (Paramount) in the right way. It can be a positive thing to reevaluate objectives, and motives. I agree, that university can be a character-forming experience...

Not that I'm suggesting you haven't, but think quite carefully about all this, Paramount. Bear in mind that you're letting yourself in for several more years of academic life, and even if it isn't like school, it certainly isn't a three-year (or more) party, either. Also, bear in mind that...

That's precisely what I object to. It's an automated process, by which banks cream millions from the significant percentage of customers that either don't know they can object, or can't be bothered, or forget, or never notice. It's a very cynical and highly exploitative practice, and a good...

Yes, we all have a duty to ensure our accounts are managed responsibly, but that fee is supposed to be "to cover costs". I'd like to know how they incur £39 in costs, for for boils down to a couple of automated computer entries and an automated email. That charge is, in my view, excessive...

If you're happy with the figure you've arrived at, and they decline, you could always try a hard line response. If they try to negotiate, say something like .... "Well, in that case, seeing as the scaffolding will adversely affect my quality of life, and we can't agree on adequate...

It's not about personal use at all, but about legal use. The situation is different for computer software, and other forms of media. For somputer software, a legitimate user can make back up copies necessary for their legitimate use. For non-computer software (such as audio and video...

It's difficult to tell from the article, but it looks to me as if this is about several things. Firstly, a raw recruit being badgered into making this jump, when she was obviously uncomfortable with it. As the ruling said, she could have been allowed to start the jump sitting down. If she had...